One of the main reasons the PlayBook could face battery life issues is the incorporation of Flash in the platform. Here is how Shaw Wu breaks down the three main areas where battery life can be negatively impacted:
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1. The PlayBook supports Flash, and Flash is a resource hog. Says Wu, “As seen in recent tests for the new MacBook Air, use of Flash can cut battery life in half….From our understanding, the poor battery life of early PlayBook units may be due to its incorporation of Adobe Flash.”

2. QNX, the operating system on which PlayBook is to run, wasn’t designed for it. It was intended for devices drawing power from a wall socket or car battery, not mobile platforms whose power sources are necessarily limited by their own mobility.

3. RIM’s implementation of power management is not as well-integrated as that of its rivals–particularly Apple, whose homegrown A4 system-on-chip enables the company to deliver superior battery life.

RIM has already gone on record saying that the device has not yet been optimized for battery life but they are on track to deliver a tablet that “offers superior performance with comparable battery life.” Perhaps Adobe should weigh in on this discussion and speak to the accusations that their product is a “resource hog”.

These analysts are full of crap, and only serve one purpose to drive up or drive down a stock price. Either way they make their cut, and their whole point is to simply drive activity since investment firms make their money regardless

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Sounds like a reason to pick on the PlayBook! find any reason to tear it down and compare it to their precious iPad. Sad thing for them is that they can only find the fact that it’s pre-bata so the battery life sucks. Nothing else? I guess everything else is better then the iPad then … forgot to mention that.